How to setup Renovate? #2108

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opened 2025-08-27 12:11:56 +02:00 by kierun · 2 comments

kierun commented

2025-08-27 12:11:56 +02:00

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I am trying to set up CI (Woodpecker) to run Renovate and cannot figure out what I am missing.

My current attempt is here… It's not working.
I have seen this example repo, but it's just uncommented source code which does not help much.
I have read the Renovate docs, but again I am struggling to figure out all the moving parts.
This blog post suggest using a command line with a token…. What token? Where do I get it from? Why is it utterly different from this?

I am 💯happy to create the documentation once I have got it working, but I need some help before that happens.

### Comment I am trying to set up CI (Woodpecker) to run Renovate and cannot figure out what I am missing. - [My current attempt is here](https://codeberg.org/kierun/pynpc/src/branch/feat/renovate)… It's not working. - I have seen [this example repo](https://codeberg.org/woodpecker-plugins/renovate-config), but it's just uncommented source code which does not help much. - I have read the [Renovate docs](https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/platform/forgejo/), but again I am struggling to figure out all the moving parts. - [This blog post suggest using a command line with a token…](https://dille.name/blog/2023/01/15/using-renovate-with-codeberg/). What token? Where do I get it from? Why is it utterly different from [this](https://codeberg.org/woodpecker-plugins/renovate-config)? I am 💯happy to create the documentation once I have got it working, but I need some help before that happens.

kierun commented

2025-08-27 13:43:32 +02:00

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@kierun wrote in #2108 (comment):

I have seen this example repo, but it's just uncommented source code which does not help much.

Apparently, I should not be using this at all which is fine.

This does leave me even more confused.

@kierun wrote in https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/2108#issue-2240830: > * I have seen [this example repo](https://codeberg.org/woodpecker-plugins/renovate-config), but it's just uncommented source code which does not help much. Apparently, [I should not be using this at all](https://codeberg.org/woodpecker-plugins/renovate-config/issues/10#issuecomment-6733420) which is fine. This does leave me even more confused.

gedankenstuecke commented

2025-08-27 14:50:47 +02:00

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This also means that you'd have to host your own instance of Renovate somewhere for the regular checks as far as I can tell: https://docs.renovatebot.com/examples/self-hosting/

As far as I know, there is no Codeberg-wide bot for running Renovate for users, so you would have to setup your own, which is also why you would need a Personal Access Token, which allows Renovate to interact with Forgejo/Codeberg on that accounts behalf: https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/platform/forgejo/ This also means that you'd have to host your own instance of Renovate somewhere for the regular checks as far as I can tell: https://docs.renovatebot.com/examples/self-hosting/

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